Bonus Recipe: Tahini Soy Sauce Salad Dressing
A creamy, salty tahini dressing for your crunchiest salads and rice bowls
Hi Friends!
Since she was a toddler, my youngest kid has been an eater with food obsessions that can last for months (or years) then abruptly end. There was a solid year or more when it felt like she ate only yogurt and buttered bread. She was obsessed with noodles for a short time, then white rice, then homemade sushi and berry smoothies. Currently, she’s on a grilled cheese sandwich with onions kick.
Where did she get this habit, I wondered, of craving one type of food incessantly? And then I looked at my own eating habits, and well, it’s pretty clear where it came from.
Right now I’m obsessed with this salty, creamy tahini & soy sauce salad dressing. I could happily eat a crunchy chopped salad (with tofu or chicken thrown in) every day for lunch if this dressing is poured on top. I make this dressing (instead of peanut sauce) when we have rice bowls with tofu and veggies. I’ve been known to pour it over cold noodles. I like it with roasted broccoli.
You get my point - you can pour this dressing over almost anything. If you need a jolt of new flavor in your life (who doesn’t?) I promise that this bold salad dressing will perk up your lunches and make salads interesting again.
Tahini Soy Sauce Salad Dressing
This creamy dressing tastes best over crunchy salads. It’s a little too heavy for soft baby greens. It’s also great with all sorts of raw veggies and roasted veggies like broccoli. It’s a flavorful dressing for a chicken chopped salad or a rice bowl with tofu.
This recipe has been adapted from Glory Bowls in the Whitewater Cooks cookbook.
A printable pdf of the recipe can be found at the bottom of the page.
Questions? If you have any questions about this recipe, just ask in the comments!
Ingredients
1/3 cup lower-sodium soy sauce
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup tahini
2 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
1 small garlic clove
Instructions
Combine all of the ingredients in a blender. Blender until smooth and creamy. I often whisk in another tablespoon or of water if the dressing is too thick.
Recipe Notes
You can add more vinegar if you like a sharper flavor.
If you whisk this dressing by hand, it will take awhile for the tahini to become smooth and loose and not thick and grainy. Just keep whisking! Using warm water will make it easier to whisk the ingredients together.
You can make this dressing using half peanut butter and half tahini if you like a peanut flavor.
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